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OBITUARY DONALD STARK
BOWERS, JR. Anchorage Daily News |
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Montana Creek resident DONALD STARK BOWERS JR., 52, died Monday,
June 19, 2000, in an airplane crash 30 miles west of Mount McKinley. A service for Mr. Bowers and the three National Parks Service employees
who died in the airplane crash will be at 6 p.m. Sunday, June 25, 2000, at
the Talkeetna Elementary School, with a private family service for Mr. Bowers
at a later date. Mr. Bowers was born April 1, 1948, in Fort Smith, Ark., to Donald Stark
Bowers Sr. and Lois Ann Paddock Bowers. He graduated from the United States
Air Force Academy in 1970 and held a masters degree in Aeronautical
Engineering. He was a retired Air force colonel and received the Douglas
MacArthur Medal. Mr. Bowers was a C-130 Hercules pilot and worked at Hudson Air Service
in the summers and as a substitute teacher for the Mat-Su Borough School
District in the winters. He also published articles and books on flying in
Alaska. In 1997 he received the Iditarod Sportsmanship Award. Mr. Bowers was preceded in death by his mother, Lois Ann Paddock
Bowers; maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Paddock; and paternal
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Bowers. He is survived by his father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. Donald S.
Bowers Sr. of Van Buren, Ark.; sisters and brothers-in-law, Ann Bowers
Sweatman of Angel Fire, N.M., Carolyn Powell and Ken Hartley of Dallas,
Texas, Maud Powell and Jim Ramsay of Malibu, Calif., and Annie Powell and
Andrew Hendricks of Fort Smith, Ark.; brothers and sisters-in-law, David L.
and Jane Bowers of Fort Smith, and John Russell and Debra Bowers of Dallas;
aunts and uncles, Mrs. Ben Paddock of Fort Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Staton
of Fort Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bowers of Keokuk, Iowa, and Mr. amd Mrs.
James Bowers of Lake Okiboji, Iowa; nieces, Victoria and Catherine Sweatman
of Angel Fire, Emma and Rachel Hendricks and Rosalie Bowers of Fort Smith,
Sarah and Allison Ramsay of Malibu; nephews, Grant Bowers, Andrew Hendricks
and John R. Bowers, all of Fort Smith, Booth Ramsay of Malibu, and Mac and
Kelso Hartley of Dallas; and many cousins and friends. In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made to the Iditarod Trail
Committee in Wasilla. Arrangements by Valley Funeral Home & Crematory of Wasilla. |